User talk:Lou Sander/Useful Stuff

Lou Sander's Useful Stuff

 * Help:Cheatsheet
 * Help:Wiki markup
 * Words to Watch
 * Editors Index to Wikipedia
 * ✅ = ✅
 * (with two underscores on either side of the word)
 * 
 * Pinging   Simple ping:  followed by message text. 
 * Help:Wiki markup
 * Archiving a Talk Page
 * Tools
 * Lotsa Tools
 * Wikimedia Commons
 * Template:Non-free_book_cover
 * Tables
 * My "Tables Sandbox"
 * Deletion process
 * List of citation templates GOOD!
 * Template:Cite Book
 * "Citation needed" fact|date=May 2005
 * Name it:  Refer to it: 
 * Nonbreaking space: AMPnbspSEM
 * Quotation Marks: WP:LQ

Archiving a Talk Page

 * 1) Get into edit mode on the talk page that contains the material you want to archive
 * 2) Near the top of that talk page, create a link to the prospective archive page. Example: /Archive 1
 * 3) On the talk page, cut the material that you want to archive
 * 4) Save the talk page (now minus the material to be archived), using an edit summary like "Archiving old material"
 * 5) When the new, smaller talk page comes up on your screen, find and click the link you added at the top (it will be red): /Archive 1
 * 6) A blank page will come up, with the name you have chosen for your archive. Paste the cut material into it
 * 7) Add talk archive</tt> before and after the pasted material. (You can copy it from here if you like. Be sure to get all the curly brackets, and don't worry about the underline.)
 * 8) Save the new page, with an edit summary like "New archive"
 * 9) Optionally go back to the main talk page and add an <tt>archivebox</tt>.
 * 10) Remove the (formerly red) link you added at the top of the talk page, then save the page, using an edit summary like "Added Archive Box"

Here is a cool archive box that lets you give a descriptive name to your archive: <BR> <tt> </tt>

Here is a cooler one with three archives, each on its own line: <BR> <tt> </tt>